Newsletter 4

Please help your child to sing the rhyme ‘5 little speckled frogs’ for this weeks Rhyme Challenge. The children have been learning the letter sounds s, a, t this week. Go on a letter hunt around your house and find objects that begin with these letter sounds? Enjoy your home learning together.

FS2 Homework

Literacy – This week we have been learning about the police that help us in the community. We have even had a real life police lady come into school and talk to us about her job. For your homework can you draw a police man or police lady and label their uniform e.g. hat, truncheon, hand cuffs etc.

Maths – For maths homework this week can the children make a number line going backwards from 10 to 0 or 20 to 0. When it is finished you could use the language of 1 less to count down the number line.

Year 1 Homework

Literacy – Can you interview a grown up in your house asking them questions using – what, when, why & where.

Find words with the ir, er, ur sound in and write them in your homework book. You could look in your favourite book or a newspaper

Numeracy – Can you find a cube, cuboid, sphere, cylinder and prism in your house? Make a list of what your find in your homework book.

Topic – We will be starting our new topic ‘The Solar System’ next week. Please find a research a planet of your choice.

Reverend Daran Ward

We offer a warm welcome to Reverend Daran Ward from St Francis’ church who visited school yesterday and met the children in assembly. We look forward to seeing him as a regular visitor in school and during our visits to St Francis’.

Road Safety

Our Foundation Stage Children enjoyed a visit from The Rotherham Road Safety team as part of their topic ‘People who help us’ and learned about how to keep safe when out and about.

Attendance – Foundation Stage 2, Yr1 & Y2

You should now have received a letter giving details of your child’s attendance for the Autumn Term. We would like to congratulate all the children who attend regularly and on time especially those who received 100% attendance.

Class of the week

Your child’s level of attendance doesn’t just affect them, it affects others too. Each week, the class with the highest overall level of attendance receives a certificate to display in their classroom. Congratulations to Mrs Stothard’s class who are currently class of the week having attained a level of 100%. We will keep you updated each week on the newsletter. Will your class be next?

DIARY DATES

Wednesday 5th February 5pm FABSS meeting in the infant school – all welcome!